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Mission Impact 2025
HOLY FAMILY CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | VICTORIA, MN
FIRE Way student leaders
participate in summer training.
The October FIRE Way awards ceremony recognized students
distinguished by faculty nominations.
values. Students remain in the same multi-grade groups
throughout all four years, along with faculty and staff. All of
the initiatives are developed and led by our FIRE Way student
leaders. Lastly, we recognize students who are living out the
FIRE Way in our monthly awards ceremony.
In encouraging students to “Grow” and “Seek God,”
we foster an environment where spiritual formation
and intellectual curiosity flourish side by side.
“Love One Another” and “Do the Right Thing” guide
our actions and interactions. By helping each person to
“Recognize and Share your Gifts,” we acknowledge their
unique contributions. “Be a Part of the Community” is more
than an invitation—it is a profound commitment to ensure
that each person feels they are known, named, and loved
for who they are.
This approach, grounded in our mission, has transformed
the routine of school life into a series of sacred encounters
that reach beyond academics. Each day at Holy Family
affirms the principle that every action can “touch the hearts”
of young people and empower them to live courageously
and generously according to God’s plans. Every classroom
becomes an altar—a place where students, teachers, and
staff are called to give the best of themselves in the service
of God and one another.
La Salle High School sophomore retreat.
Chris Winiarski
Chris Winiarski is the Director of Campus Ministry, Mission and
Formation at La Salle High School in Cincinnati, Ohio, where
he also teaches Religion.
Ideas don’t change people—God-centered relationships do.
While much of modern education centers on knowledge and
ideas, Lasallian education holds that transformative education
happens through relationships rooted in truth and love,
freely given by our wise and loving God. For us as Lasallians,
knowledge and wisdom go hand in hand, and are found most
readily in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ,
which animates our teaching and learning.
In his May 15, 2025 address to the Brothers of the Christian
Schools, Pope Leo XIV reminded us that our teaching as
Lasallian educators is “more than pedagogy; Lasallian education
is ministry and mission, a consecration in the Church.” Our
classrooms, therefore, are not confined by four walls—they
are the locus of sacred encounter, formation, and service with
and for the students entrusted to our care. Lasallian educators
lead and accompany young people to discover that their
true identity is grounded in God’s eternal love and that their
purpose is to live out that love in Gospel-centered relationships.
